When you take high risks, the rewards are higher. So sometimes I'll gamble just to see what happens. If it doesn't work, I know I can't do that.

Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.

I look at other artists who have had fabulous first albums, and you don't know what they're doing today. Who's to say I'll be an exception to that rule?

Dating is different when you get older. You're not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.

Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.

Broadway, I have to memorize everything. You get one time to do it right.